Jen Zink, PhD

Jen Zink, PhD, is the Director of Partnerships and Grants at Lasso Informatics, where she supports multimodal data coordination efforts for large-scale research initiatives. Previously, Dr. Zink was at National Institutes of Health for over 4 years, first as a Cancer Prevention Fellow (NCI) and then as a Scientific Program Manager for the HBCD Study (NIDA).

Dr. Zink earned her PhD in Preventive Medicine from the University of Southern California. Her research has focused on the behavioral and physiological determinants of health in children and adolescents, with an emphasis on physical activity, sedentary behavior, and their relationships to mental health, metabolic outcomes, and brain development. Her work has explored how patterns of movement, screen time, and sleep relate to outcomes such as anxiety, depression, obesity risk, and insulin sensitivity, often leveraging intensive longitudinal data to better understand health in everyday contexts.